“We take a close look at the most lucrative tax incentives and subsidies behind bloated CEO pay and highlight those executives who have reaped the highest rewards from tax code provisions that actively encourage outrageously disproportionate executive pay,” study authors Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, Scott Klinger and Sam Pizzigati said in a statement.

Here are the 26 companies that paid its CEOs more than “Uncle Sam” in 2011: